No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of A Midsummer Night's Dream" on the left-hand page side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language A complete list of characters with descriptions Plenty of helpful commentary" ...

Take Note for Exam Success! York Notes offer an exciting approach to English literature. This market leading series fully reflects student needs. They are packed with summaries commentaries exam advice margin & textual features to offer a wider context to the text & encourage a critical analysis. York Notes The Ultimate Literature Guides. ...

A Midsummer Nights Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeares plays. It brings together aristocrats workers & fairies in a wood outside Athens & from there the magic begins. A young woman flees Athens with her lover only to be pursued by her would-be husband & by her best friend. Unwittingly all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies & sprites soon take an interest in human affairs dispensing magical love potions & casting mischievous spells. In this dazzling comedy confusion ends in harmony as love is transformed misplaced & ultimately restored. ...

Four young people are lost in the woods on midsummers night. Will they find each other & true love or will Pucks meddling leave them broken-hearted & alone? A band of players prepares to entertain the Duke of Athens. But now that the fairies have made a donkey out of their leading man will Quince & the others ever get to play their parts? Is there time to put everything right before this magical night is over? ...

The entire Shakespeare play
- unabridged! The course of true love never did run smooth;" With its mix of real people who stumble
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The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series with Romeo & Juliet Henry V & The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Its lyricism comedy (both broad & subtle) & magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night's Dream one of the most popular of Shakespeare's works. The supernatural & the mundane the illusory & the substantial are all shimmeringly blended. Love is treated as tragic poignant absurd & farcical. ' Lord what fools these mortals be!' jeers Robin Goodfellow; but the joke may be on him & on his master Oberon when Bottom the weaver his head transformed into that of an ass is embraced by the voluptuously amorous Titania. Recent stage-productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream have emphasised the enchanting spectacular ambiguous & erotically joyous aspects of this magical drama which culminates in a multiple celebration of marriage. ...

This new edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream is part of the established Cambridge School Shakespeare series & has been substantially updated with new & revised activities throughout. Remaining faithful to the series' active approach it treats the play as a script to be acted explored & enjoyed. As well as the complete script of A Midsummer Night's Dream you will find a variety of classroom-tested activities an eight-page colour section & an enlarged selection of notes including information on characters performance history & language. ...

It's the hotly anticipated sequel to the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize WITHERING TIGHTS
- laugh your tights off as Tallulah
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In less than one day the might of the Imperial Japanese Navy was destroyed & four of her great aircraft carriers sank burning into the dark depths of the Pacific. Utilizing the latest research & detailed combat maps this book tells the dramatic story of the Japanese assault on Midway Island & the American ambush that changed the face of the Pacific war. With sections on commanders opposing forces & a blow-by-blow account of the action this volume gives a complete understanding of the strategy the tactics & the human drama that made up the Midway campaign & its place as the turning point in the Pacific war. ...

In the sleepy English village of Midwich a mysterious silver object appears & all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone & everyone awakens unharmed
- except that all the women in the village are discovered to be pregnant. The resultant children of Midwich do not belong to their parents: all are blonde all are golden eyed. They grow up too fast & their minds exhibit frightening abilities that give them control over others & brings them into conflict with the villagers just as a chilling realisation dawns on the world outside. The Midwich Cuckoos" is the classic tale of aliens in our midst exploring how we respond when confronted by those who are innately superior to us in every conceivable way."
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